bjpcjp

Here's the deal. I'm a senior product manager in Austin. Most of my experience is hardware (semiconductor) or related software (IP, dev tools). I spend every waking moment reading Hacker News / Platformed.info / @asmartbear, playing with Rails/AngularJS/MeteorJS, or scribbling down ideas for new products.

I have plenty of time on my hands thanks to a management team that can't get out from under its own feet. My experience level puts me out of range of most folks' ideas of what a product manager should be. (This isn't a compensation comment. It's more of a seniority/culture comment.) But I've got a serious itch to contribute, and nowhere to burn off all this excess energy.

If anybody reading this has a need for been-there, done-that product skills, I'd like to hear from you. PT or contract basis fine. Just give me a chance to use the creative side of my brain.

@brianpiercy

Here's the deal. I'm a senior product manager in Austin. Most of my experience is hardware (semiconductor) or related software (IP, dev tools). I spend every waking moment reading Hacker News / Platformed.info / @asmartbear, playing with Rails/AngularJS/MeteorJS, or scribbling down ideas for new products.

I have plenty of time on my hands thanks to a management team that can't get out from under its own feet. My experience level puts me out of range of most folks' ideas of what a product manager should be. (This isn't a compensation comment. It's more of a seniority/culture comment.) But I've got a serious itch to contribute, and nowhere to burn off all this excess energy.

If anybody reading this has a need for been-there, done-that product skills, I'd like to hear from you. PT or contract basis fine. Just give me a chance to use the creative side of my brain.

https://twitter.com/brianpiercy

Let's face it. JS developers have a great problem - there's more interesting frameworks being intro'd each week. Being competent on multiple frameworks is hard enough if your main job is as a developer. As a product manager, I'm in a bind.

Why is a PM asking? Well, my company is pretty small & doesn't get application development at all. (Don't get me started. It's depressing.) So I develop an occasional app so that my salespeople can access information & manipulate it on-the-fly, instead of depending on MS Office crapware. I've graduated from simple static HTML to Ruby on Rails to (hopefully) JS-based tools.

I want to build these myself. I have the bandwidth to do them, I don't want to wait on my HQ staff to deliberate, and I want to add these skills to my background

So - which JS framework should I learn FIRST?

- Node - Backbone - Meteor - Angular - Ember - Other

OK, pile on. I'm completely open to ideas.

I'm stuck in a company that does not know how to properly use product management. SURELY there is a firm (hopefully in Austin; if not, let's talk) that appreciates having an experienced, motivated, talented PM on board.

Here's the metadata:

* 20 years' experience. Semiconductors, smartphones, firmware, software.

* Both startups and old school firms.

* Product mgmt, Program mgmt, key account support, software design

* Rails, Python, HTML/CSS, plus a little R / Node / Backbone

* Lean startups, Growth hacking, Open source, Failing fast

* EE degree plus an MBA (don't knock it. It helped.)

I've traveled all over the world, am great in front of customers, and my wife says I look good in a suit. Not looking to be paid a million bucks. (It would be nice, however.)

Look me up. I'm on LinkedIn, Stack Exchange, GitHub & Quora. We should talk.

Brian Piercy

Austin, Texas, y'all

http://www.linkedin/in/brianpiercy

I'm a technical product manager in Austin with just enough coding chops to look good on TV. (Rails, some Python, Bootstrap for styling, R; doing the Node & Backbone tutorials now.) The code's not good enough to impress anybody on GitHub, but I'll keep plugging away.

Any suggestions on how to increase visibility with hiring managers? PMs don't have anything like a GitHub to showcase their skills.

Appreciate it in advance.